There was a wise man who lived in Hardwar in India.
The wise man himself did not have money simply because he didn’t desire it. He had all he needed. He had a cave to meditate in, and a cloth to wrap around himself — he was happy.
One day, a pauper came to visit this wise man. The pauper said that he was so poor, yet desired to be wealthy. He asked what he must do to become wealthy. The wise yogi retorted that he must develop wealth consciousness to attain wealth, and without this consciousness, no real lasting wealth could ever be attained.
The pauper gave the yogi a strange look and said, “I don’t have time for this consciousness nonsense. I am poor and need to find a way to solve my problem of how I lack money”. The wise yogi told the pauper that even his method of describing his problem of poverty clearly displayed the problem of the consciousness. The yogi explained that when you subconsiously feel that you lack money — you will attract more lack of money. When you have a thought — the thought attracts a particular type of reality.
The pauper just looked at the wise man and said, “What does having a thought have to do with reality?”. The wise man said that thoughts have everything to do with reality. Without thoughts, there would be no reality. God had a thought of a beautiful planet, and it manifested itself over time: no thought — no reality– no planet — simple! When you lift your arm up, the movement can not start before your mind has the thought of the movement. All actions begin with starts. When an engine’s piston moves, it all starts with a spark of a spark plug — and the spark is very similar karmically to the thought that commences an action.
The pauper, looked skeptically once again at this long haired simple meditative yogi and said, “So, you mean, that if I think that I will have money, then I will have money?” The yogi said that it was not quite so simple as that. The yogi explained that through the pauper’s entire lifespan of 32 years, he had thought about poverty the whole time. Imagine how many thoughts of lack that gentleman could have had in 32 years — perhaps millions of impovrished thoughts. To turn the poverty around, it might take a million opposing thoughts — thoughts of wealth.
The question is — how do you develop the wealth consciousness?
I will address this in other blog entries!